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Value Orientations and the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) in Northern, Western and Southern Europe: An Update

NNN1Surkyn, FFF1Johan; NNN2Lesthaeghe, FFF2Ron - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 3 (2004) 3, pp. 45-86

, cohabitation and marriage, parenthood and union dissolution. Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA) is used to control for …

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Spousal communication about the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi

NNN1Zulu, FFF1Eliya; NNN2Chepngeno, FFF2Gloria - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 8, pp. 247-278

comprehend their risk to HIV/AIDS and what preventive strategies they consider within marriage. Program efforts to promote … behavior change have consistently focused on promoting chastity before marriage and fidelity while married or using condoms …. These behavioral prescriptions are suitable for extramarital contexts but not within marriage, where the condom is far from …

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Divorce and Remarriage in Rural Malawi

NNN1Reniers, FFF1Georges - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 6, pp. 175-206

discussion of the proximate determinants of fertility. This paper uses unusual marriage history data to examine divorce and … more complicated than that. This is, for example, illustrated in the effect of the polygyny variables. Marriage, divorce …

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Comparing, Contextualizing, and Conceptualizing

NNN1Schatz, FFF1Enid - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 5, pp. 143-174

Demographic research mainly focuses on objective variables found in census and survey data. As demographers' interests expand to socially constructed phenomena, the discipline needs to incorporate new tools appropriate for understanding more subjective phenomena. The integration of quantitative...

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Why are they worried? Concern about AIDS in rural Malawi

NNN1Smith, FFF1Kirsten P. - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 9, pp. 279-318

There are two main types of models of behavioral change. What are collectively referred to as "individual models" are the predominant frameworks for studying risk behaviors including those related to HIV/AIDS. Individual models focus on risk perceptions, attitudes, outcome expectations,...

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Health sector reforms in Central and Eastern Europe

NNN1McKee, FFF1Martin; NNN2Nolte, FFF2Ellen - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 7, pp. 163-182

The political and economic transition of the 1990s in the countries of central and eastern Europe has been accompanied by wide ranging health care reform. The initial Soviet model has given way to a variety of forms of health insurance. Yet, as this paper argues, reform has too often been...

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An Illustration of the Problems Caused by Incomplete Education Histories in Fertility Analyses

NNN1Kravdal, FFF1Øystein - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 3 (2004) 6, pp. 135-154

When assessing the importance of education for fertility, one should ideally use complete education histories. Unfortunately, such data are often not available. It is illustrated here, using register data for Norwegian women born in 1969, that inclusion of educational level at the latest age...

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Childbearing Developments in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from the 1970s to the 1990s: A Comparison

NNN1Andersson, FFF1Gunnar - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 3 (2004) 7, pp. 155-176

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative overview of recent trends and patterns in childbearing in the three Scandinavian countries: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. We use indexes produced by applying event-history techniques to register data of the three countries in order to describe...

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Progress in health care, progress in health?

NNN1Nolte, FFF1Ellen; NNN2McKee, FFF2Martin; … - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 6, pp. 139-162

This paper examines the potential impact of changes in medical care on changing population health in Lithuania, Hungary and Romania, with west Germany included for comparison. We used the concept of deaths from certain causes that should not occur in the presence of timely and effective health...

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Cause-specific contributions to black-white differences in male mortality from 1960 to 1995

NNN1Elo, FFF1Irma; NNN2Drevenstedt, FFF2Greg L. - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 10, pp. 255-276

Between 1960 and 1995 the black-white difference in male life expectancy in the United States increased from 6.7 years to 8.2 years. To provide insights into why mortality trends have been more adverse for black men than for white men, we investigate which causes of death were principally...

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